Finland is known for lots of things. Saunas. Umlauts. A language so abstruse it could only have come from survivors of a crash-landed alien spaceship. Its capital, Helsinki, is a city that never sleeps because this time of year, it's light enough to get a stinkin' suntan at 3 a.m.

Tim Berners-Lee, who received a $1.2 million cash prize Tuesday for creating the World Wide Web, says he would never have succeeded if he had charged money for his inventions. "If I had tried to demand fees ... there would be no World Wide Web," Berners-Lee said at a ceremony for winning the first Millennium Technology Prize.

The MIT Scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has been awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize and one million euros. The award, established in 2002, is among the largest of its kind and is backed by the Finnish government.